Below is a recent article from Elkader’s Clayton County Register. Great summary of Jon’s stance on the crisis in leadership Iowa faces…. he’s getting consistent media coverage in the smaller towns throughout Iowa!

If you have not already, PLEASE take five minutes and visit Jon’s campaign site: www.NarcisseForIowa.com … there is so much depth there that outlines and explains Jon’s thoughtful and logical strategies to fix Iowa government. White papers, embedded newspaper, videos… a vastly more comprehensive showing than the Branstad/Culver ticket has to offer.

I’m very transparent, everyone online knows who I am. I have your words, I have your videos & I have all links. How can you dispute what you have said and the facts from your own mouth and writings? There is nothing to discuss. Bye, bye in November 2010!

Well, if you are determined to misrepresent me that is your choice. You’re like the little boy who got into trouble and when his father prepared to discipline him his response was “dad, the Bible says spare the rod and spoil the child.”

When I got into this contest I had three objectives:

1. Advance an agenda – AnIowaWorthFightingFor.com

2. Engage Iowans in solution oriented discourse

3. Develop a statewide impact mechanism

All three of those objectives will be accomplished so I’ll be around long past November – win or lose. Beyond that you simply don’t know what you’re talking about and aren’t interested in the truth.

First you are wrong on my age, second, my gender, then my revelation. You have an axe to grind and an agenda to fulfill and it has nothing to do with the entire populace of Iowa.

hmm? Building a name on the backs of a portion of the populace “…Should Narcisse win 2 percent of the vote this fall, the Iowa Party becomes a full-fledged political party in Iowa with caucuses and a primary in 2012…” or how about your very own piece “New Agenda For Black America?”

You are not my father, husband or any other relative so keep your admonishments to yourself. You have my full and undivided attention, I am sure the citizens of Iowa would appreciate more of my insight.

Once again, you Jonathan Narcisse, confirm via standard Alinsky tactics, that you are not worthy of any support from the good citizens of Iowa to gain any political position in that state. You attempt to denigrate anyone who would enlighten the people with a full and transparent vetting background check. You continually resort to baiting, that game is over, it’s a non-playable card. One would think that you had a better use of your time than to read blogs on the internet. You know your own failings, but do the good people of Iowa? Monday’s article should prove to be an awakening of the highest magnitude. You have no defense but you are offensive. You should really brush up on your Alinsky or put it away altogether, Conservatives have no use for radical tools. And a good morning to you too!

Mr. Rangel and Ms. Waters it appears that the subcommittees are comprised of two different groups. That creates independent results. Pulling the “Race Card” is a nice touch, but everyone sees the hypocrisy. You had jobs that you were elected to, on your word and by your oath of office, by your constituents. You let them down. There shouldn’t even be an opportunity for an ethics committee to investigate you, unless there was a reason to begin with. There are better people waiting in the wings, to gladly take care of all that you failed to do within your job description and ethical conduct, this November via the polls.

Don’t whine after you are caught and exposed and attempt to deflect guilt and place the blame upon others with false innuendos. You deserve the highest penalties that can be handed down from your fellow Representatives and/or the Courts!

President Obama’s $4 billion education initiative to spur school reform has become a veritable piñata as the program heads into its second round. Not only has Congress raided the account to pay for teacher layoffs to be averted, prompting a White House veto threat of the war supplemental to which it’s attached, but there’s a quiet rebellion going on by some in the education community to ditch the program.

So why has the contest lost some of its shine? According to the ranking member on the House Education and Labor Committee, it’s a loss of confidence in the system.

“Competition is generally a good thing,” says Minnesota Republican Representative John Kline. “The question is fair, whose doing the judging? How’s the point system put together? Let’s face it, in anything like this where you have judges, whether it’s an Olympic diving competition or something like this, you have some subjectivity. In your state you would like to know what the rules are and want as little subjectivity as possible.”

Minnesota recently joined eight other states in opting out the second round of the contest.

Race to the Top’s aim is to prepare students for a better future. States participate by competing for a federal grant, administered in phases, and fulfilling what the program calls the four assurances: instituting rigorous standards and assessments, recruiting and retaining effective teachers, turning around low-performance schools and establishing data systems to track student achievement and teacher performance.

Phase I winners were announced on March 29th, and the deadline for submitting Phase II applications was June 1st. The winners for this phase will be announced later in September.

The $4.35 billion dollar incentive program was designed by the United States Department of Education and is funded by the ED Recovery Act as part of the American Recovery Act of 2009. It was announced by President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on July 24, 2009.

The National Education Association, the largest labor union in the U.S. representing teachers and other support personnel, gave the program a vote of “no confidence” earlier this month. Many saw it as a symbolic slam on the Obama administration. The item would eventually pass, but only by a razor-thin margin.

One member at the NEA convention where the resolution was approved actually offered a resolution to call for the ouster of Secretary Duncan, in part because of the program. That resolution was never approved.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Teachers Union, called the program a mixed bag. “The real issue is that ‘Race to the Top’ in principle would be a good program if we didn’t have the kind of budget shortfalls that we have right now. It’s hard to be innovative and to do new and different things that require time and resources when we’re seeing state after state having devastating budget cuts.”

But that hasn’t stopped several states, 35 of them in fact, plus the district of Columbia, from lining up for a slice of the grant money.

Representative Jared Polis, D-Co., told Fox News, “For every dollar they spend they’re getting reforms all across the country. Reforms that encourage good teachers to stay in teaching. Reforms that intervene in changing schools, removing caps for the number of charter schools. These are all things that are happening nationally because of ‘Race to the Top.'”

Bottom line – has this contest overstayed its welcome, particularly in the face of rising deficits? Or should Congress reinstate funding and add even more money than President Obama is seeking?

Fox News’ Trish Turner contributed to this report.

The glaring offense from above:

“Competition is generally a good thing,” says Minnesota Republican Representative John Kline. “The question is fair, whose doing the judging?”

Why don’t they just ask the Japanese how to educate properly? Their system works. And, if you can’t tell the difference between whose and who’s in a news article about education what sense does any of this make?